The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Negro Murderer Appreciated a
Brunswick-Midnight Visitors Per
petrate Gross Outrage on an Aget
Couple at McBean-The Belief tha'
there was Murder at Hamburg
Gaining Ground.
"A GEORGIA
A n& school for negroes is to be built al
Griffin.
The Elberton Loan and Savings Bank
will open business on Sept. l.
W. NJ Wilcox & Co., have decided to
discontinue the furniture business in Elber-
ton.
j. w. Stone of Reed Creek, in Elbert
county, says he has twenty acres of cotton
that will make twenty bales, if no disaster
bcfall it,
A small boy about ten years of age,
named Bob Odum, better known as "Bob
the Kid left his mothers home at Column
bus on Wednesday last, and has not been
seen since.
The notice of the Mayor Of Macon to the
gamblers TO leave town had its effect A
number of them lett Friday, but there are
some who say they will not leave under any
consideration.
Col J. s. Baughn, of Oglethorpe county,
gives rather a gloomy report OF the crop
outlook He says the corn crop has been
seriously injured by the heavy rains, while
25 per cent less cotton will be made than
last year
Peter Parks, the negro who killed wo-
man at Bucks dstillery, on the Brunswick
and Western railroad, was caught in Bruins
wick Thursday and locked up in Jail. He
fears lynching If carried back to the neigh
borhood of the murder.
j. M. Thomson, of GAINESVILLE, had a
valuable horse killed by lightning last
Thursday. He was standing in the stable
and was instantly killed, many of his bones
being broken, but no evidence could be
sound OF the bolt having struck the stable.
Irwin Rees, negro man who lives near
Brooksville, in the Tenth district of Ran
dolph county, had two good mules killed by
lightning last Friday. They were in field
standing near stump about ten feet high,
when the stump was struck and they were
killed instantly.
Complaints come in from all sections of
the State that the peach trees are dying
with the ''yellows," and many have lost
their whole orchards. The leaves of the
trees turn yellow, and they soon die. Il is
contagious, and when it gets a hold in the
orchards it generally kills a great part of
the trees.
Mr.. CAN'T who has returned from a trip
through jackson county, says that crops are
not near so good as expected The high
waters destroyed all the corn on the low
lands, while only the early crop of cotton
will mature. The prospect, however, is
very good, and the people appear in excel
lent spirits.
Sam Smith, Of Jackson county, is hauling
great many Shockly apples to Athens.
and says they are falling off the tree faster
than be can haul them Mr. Smith has a
very large orchard, and says that if they
continue to fall off, that in a few weeks
there will not be an apple on his trees.
lie attributes it to the recent wet weather
Capt John j. Seay has received a letter
from Capt. R. s. Hoxie, in which he states
that the contract for the machinery Of the
gates for the Coosa river locks has been
awarded, and that they are TO be completed
by Nov. IA. With the completion of these
locks the steamers will be enabled to navi-
gate to the Georgia Pacific bridge, dis
lance of 226 miles from Rome.
A wagon, bearing upon its bed ten bales
OF cotton and drawn by eight oxen, drove
into Albany Thursday afternoon, and at
tracted considerable attention. The driver
sat perched upon one of the wheel yoke, and
hurled his whoas and haws at Buck and Ball,
and tapped other individual oxen of his team
with his far reaching whip Upon inquiry
the team was found to be owned by Hon p
W. Jones, of Baker county.
Fort Valley Mirror: There is no use
longer holding to the delusion that we are
going to make good cotton crop. 1t is
going to be very short one. Up to n
month ago, it was the finest we had had for
many years, but about two weeks of rain
and a subsequent crop of caterpillars, boil
worms, rust, blight and every other disease
known, has ruined the prospect for any
thing like an average crop.
On Wednesday evening last, two negro
men, Richard Richardson and Abe Fore
man, went in bathing in Turtle river, near
brunswick, at noon, when very warm. A.
s Foreman, who is good swimmer, plunged
into the water and rose to the surface, but
Immediately sank to the bottom and did
not rise again. It is supposed he was taken
with the cramp. His body was at once Sc
cured, but life was extinct.
A small negro on the farm of I. p. Hutch
inson, near Chipley. was poisoned through
the ignorance of its mother Wednesday
evening. The physician had left some opium
powders 20 be given the mother few davs
while she was sick, aud, getting well before
having taken all the powders, some were
IT. Her baby was taken i'll, and igno-
rantly she gave the powders left to il, and
the child died in few hours.
The lessees in control of the Camp of CON
victs on the Augusta and Chattanooga rail
road, formerly managed by Bondurant q
Joplin have appointed Dir. H. c. Houk.
formerly physician at ''Old Town Camp"
TO take charge as commissariat and physi-
clan. DIR. Honk's appointment has been in
dorsed by the Penitentiary Department, and
in this way has he successfully met the
charges in regard to his management at
''Old Town"
Perry Home Journal: We saw last Sat
urday tin oil can that Mr.. Calvin, of near
Henderson, said had been in regular use in
his family for thirty years. He bought it
directly after be was married, and on last
Saturday it was in Perry for the purpose of
being filed with oil Mr.. Till also informed
US that he has lamp that has been In reg
ular use thirty years, and that the wick now
used in the lamp is the same that was pur-
chased In it,
Walter Bell, of Texas, is visiting his aunt.
Mrs. Cowan, of jefferson Mr.. Bell isSa
native of that county, having moved 10
Texas when boy. While very small boy
living near Center, he fell in well, and his
mother at once began descending the rope.
which broke, precipitating her into the
water with her child. The brave woman
caught her SON in her arms aud held him
out of the water for long while until as
sistance came.
Two hundred and sixty-five bales Of cot
ton we're brought in to Albany Thursday
The congresses will soon have all the cot
tor thnN angh Ill